Chapter 1291: Carding

Yato was already shocked beyond measure at this time.

He rubbed his eyes repeatedly, as if confirming the scene before him again and again, but the feedback his brain gave him each time was the same.

This crab-headed youth really won.

Won against those opponents who seemed powerful to the point of being almost invincible in his eyes, those most hateful attackers who destroyed the balance of this small town.

And it was a one-on-three...

"Triple kill in one turn?" The shopkeeper, the old man, was also stunned.

He looked at Fujiki You Xuan beside him, then looked at Yusei in front, his gaze shifting between the two sides, as if waiting for one of them to speak first.

Fujiki You Xuan seemed to notice the old man's wandering little gaze, patted him on the shoulder, and laughed: "Small scene, stay calm. For Yusei, this level is at most a warm-up exercise."

Saying this, he walked toward Yusei's side.

A warm-up exercise...

The shopkeeper, the old man, had a dull expression, as if he couldn't understand it anymore.

At this time, only one sentence flashed through the old man's mind.

So there really are immortals in this world...

"Mr. Fujiki You Xuan," Yusei frowned suddenly, "look at these three people, their reactions... are a bit strange."

Fujiki You Xuan had already noticed it at this time.

The Academy trio who were defeated lay on the ground twitching uncontrollably, their whole bodies covered in bulging veins. One of them desperately dug cracks into the ground with his ten fingers, and because of too much force, his five fingers were already covered in blood, his nails looking like they were about to be broken by himself, making him desperately pinch his own throat, and his reaction was also violent and his expression ferocious.

"Ahhh—"

The three screamed in unison. Then their Duel Disks all burst with dangerous dark light, that light enveloped the three of them, and the three of them looked like they were disintegrating as they turned into light clusters, and the light clusters were then sucked into their respective Duel Disks.

Only a few seconds later, the bodies of the three had completely disappeared, and in their place, three cards were spat out from the Duel Disks.

Yusei was a bit shocked: "This is..."

"Carding."

Fujiki You Xuan walked up and bent down to pick up the three cards. Sure enough, the images of the three people who had just been defeated appeared on the card art, that distorted expression, the struggling look, as if the last moment when the will to survive exploded before death was frozen here, looking particularly terrifying.

"People turned into cards!?" Yusei, who was seeing such a situation for the first time, felt horrified in his heart.

Although he had seen and experienced many life-and-death duels, the situation of people turning into cards was indeed the first time, which couldn't help but make him feel a chill down his spine.

"This is the Academy's way; the losers of the duel will be carded, and even their own people are no exception," Fujiki You Xuan said.

In fact, in his memory, the people defeated by the "Academy" in the anime would directly disappear and turn into cards. But according to the old man's description, the people defeated so far seemed to have only become vegetative, and their bodies hadn't disappeared.

So maybe only their consciousness was sealed into the cards? Fujiki You Xuan habitually walked up and, following the convention, picked up the Duel Disks left by the three.

And then he was stunned.

There was no deck in the Duel Disk.

Where are the cards? Where is my deck?

Fujiki You Xuan, who had been calm and had no emotional fluctuations from the moment he arrived in this dimension until just now, felt a bit annoyed for the first time.

It's fine that these three bastards turned themselves into cards, but where did they put my deck?

Of course, he didn't actually covet the Ancient Gear deck; Fujiki You Xuan had this kind of thing in his own GX dimension. But so-called flies are meat, even if they aren't rare, every card is real money; how could they say they were gone when they were right in front of his eyes?

After carefully checking these three Duel Disks, Fujiki You Xuan quickly realized that the cards hadn't been lost by the three of them, but rather, they hadn't been there to begin with.

There was no position to carry a deck on these Duel Disks at all.

After studying it for a while, Fujiki You Xuan was certain. This kind of Duel Disk was a new model similar to the one developed by President Kaiba in "The Dark Side of Dimensions," which didn't carry physical cards, but was just a tool for carrying card data.

But it wasn't that anyone who picked up this Duel Disk could use it, because its operation was more complex. This kind of Duel Disk was linked to the memory modules in the duelist's brain through built-in data, using a combination of science and metaphysics to materialize the card data.

The famous scene of President Kaiba drawing cards from the floor and summoning the physical "Obelisk the Tormentor," which no longer existed in the world, was realized through this method.

So although the cards used by these three looked no different from other duelists' decks during the duel, they were actually materialized through data and memory linkage. So when the duelist was erased, these cards also disappeared.

This technology had actually been released in the GX dimension where Fujiki You Xuan lived long ago, and it had also received support from many users.

It's just that Fujiki You Xuan was a traditionalist, and he still preferred physical cards—and for him, who often needed to travel through dimensions, there was actually only the traditionalist option. Because the data Duel Disk of the GX dimension could only be used within his own dimension for the time being; if he traveled across dimensions to other worlds, he couldn't dispatch data from the cloud, and the deck would hang.

But it seemed that this "Academy" had already solved the technical problem of cross-dimensional wall dispatching data.

Fujiki You Xuan thought about it; although he didn't get the deck, the value of these three Duel Disks to him was actually much more than the "Ancient Gear" deck, which he didn't lack at all.

If he brought these three Duel Disks back to study, perhaps it could help Kaiba Corporation solve technical problems faster, so that Fujiki You Xuan could dispatch more massive card libraries through data in other dimensions.

Now, although he would carry eight or nine decks with him, and store more on the D-Wheel he traveled with, to ensure that he could take out means suitable for dealing with any enemy, it was still physical cards, and no matter how many he brought, there was a limit.

But if he could realize cross-dimensional datafication, it would be equivalent to being able to carry the entire warehouse of the GX dimension with him.

Of course, physical cards were still necessary, and Fujiki You Xuan would definitely still carry a full set of decks like he was doing now. But that way, he could dispatch more cards for replacement through data at any time, just like a machine body having more replaceable parts and more weapon equipment combinations; carrying an entire military factory with him on his travels, he would naturally feel much more at ease.

However, it could also be seen from the design of this kind of Duel Disk that the "Academy" these people came from must be very different from the "Academy" Fujiki You Xuan knew.

And the fact that these people said they came from the Z-ARC Dimension and served Z-ARC before also made him very concerned.

Could Z-ARC refer to the Supreme King Dragon Z-ARC who destroyed the four dimensions... how did he become the Academy leader...